Maybe Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco. But Dr. Mallory C. Hatfield entrusts hers to Barnstable Village. And she’s a cardiologist.

Hatfield will give a talk at 11 a.m. Thursday [April 11] on “Cardiology and Women” at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Route 6A during the monthly meeting of the Barnstable branch of the Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliary. All are welcome.

“Educating the community about heart disease is one of my passions,” Hatfield said. So when the Auxiliary asked her to speak about her specialty, she was happy to accept.

“Heart disease,” she said, “kills more women than their next eight causes of death combined. That’s a scary and staggering statistic.”

Hatfield said that she grew up in “the armpit of New York” – the Lower East Side – where she went to Catholic school. Her academic career took her to the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse. She did her advanced training at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and then, through Brown University, at Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., according to information supplied by Cape Cod Healthcare.

“I feel so fortunate to be a cardiologist,” she said. “I’m very idealistic. I really wanted to save lives, and now I’m actually doing it.”

What would she like people to know about heart disease? She answered that knowledge empowers. She said that women and men need to know their family history and to stop smoking.

“Don’t lose sleep about things you can’t control,” she said about factors like family history. She said that exercise and weight can be managed. Many women, she said, present with heart disease risk factors during pregnancy. Inflammation and autoimmune conditions may also contribute to heart disease.She said that “even a lot of physicians” don’t know much about heart disease.

Hatfield, when she speaks of Barnstable Village, often speaks of love.

“I love Barnstable Village,” she said of the residence that she and her husband selected a place to raise a family. She said that her husband went to Boston University and had learned to love the Cape while he went to school there.

They were happy to find a house in the village where they are now raising a daughter.

They had lived in West Hyannis Port but as their family grew they needed a bigger house. Their choice in Barnstable Village has allowed them, she said, to experience “Old Cape Cod.”

Mallory Hatfield, M.D., who saves lives, has a special story of her own life in Barnstable Village.

“I’m constantly walking up and down 6A with my daughter,” she said.

She tempts the child with a reward for their good exercise. “I’ll buy you penny candy” when they get from their home to the village, said Hatfield, as she added, “What’s not to like about that?”